Sunday, March 12, 2006

NEANDERTHALS WERE CANNIBALS

"Gory evidence uncovered in France reveals that the early humans in theregion ate one another. Cheek muscles from children were filleted out,tendons were sliced and skulls were cracked to remove brains."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462048.stm

"When you see some Neanderthals practising intentional burial andothers practising cannibalism, that is a clear indication of behaviourthat is multidimensional - a pattern that mirrors the behaviour of moremodern people" Professor Tim White, University of California Berkeley

Recent scientific evidence suggest that we are all cannibalist until fairly recently.

"Researchers from University College London, having identified gene-based resistance to diseases of the mad-cow type among the Fore of Papua New Guinea - who only recently gave up eating their dead - went on to identify it in all the rest of us as well. John Collinge of UCL sees the pattern of chromosomal modification as due to the evolutionary "selection pressure" of past cannibalism-related diseases."

"There is now an overwhelming case that cannibalism is a worldwide phenomenon, stretching back to our evolutionary origins: wild chimpanzees and 70 other mammal species have been observed killing and eating each other, while the two-million-year-old Homo habilis cranium known as Stw 53 is covered with deliberate cut marks."

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